As Good As Bad

You lived by a dream but that dream got shattered/
you tried to move on but your life don't really matter/
cold-hearted you try to cling on to the last piece of string holding this thing strong/
you wait and you wait but the rescue it seems distant/
nobody's listening to the pain that you're resisting/
sitting on the sidewalk you see no kind of outlook/
people walking by seem to look but look away at the same time/ just like with a bum and it makes you feel like one/
you're depressed/ nothing can help it it's a mess/
like a song/ of heartbreak you long to be back in that saddle/ rididing to victory after a defeat/
but the future looks grim for you to stand on two feet/
cuz you've given up already/ and your powers declining steady/
so instead you go mad and try to take your whole life/
along with your daughter, your son and your own wife/

Chorus:2X Every action we take determines our lives/
Every fraction of faith re-assures us that fights/
Is needed for truth but we abuse it we loot/ and the price that we pay is the failure of few/

Verse 2:
Let's go back and have a look at the beginning of this tragedy/ Jason was a young man who believed in magic he/ saw it as the love he needed to stay away from drugs/ cuz the neighbourhood he lived in it was crowded with slugs/
so he painted a mental picture of what he set as goal/ full performing magician in stadiums full of fans of his work those were his plans/ never did he expect the weight of his fam/ first came his wife Janet/
She wanted to settle/ have a nice little house in the suburbs with a kettle/ slowly heating up for the afternoon tea/ Jason agreed but inside he wanted free/ wanted to flee from this life and just go out and be/
Jason became resentful/ more for every day passed/ everywhere he'd look he'd see people having a blast/ he wanted in too/ he wanted to puke/ after a crazy party with a few of his best mates too/

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Verse 3:
After about a year or two came his daughter Sue/ Jason was happy for a while before he knew/
That this was the end/ he could no longer pretend/ that he was a free man/ he was now a family dad/
mad at his mistake he tried to play the roll/ but it took its toll/ and Jason begun to smoke weed/ to relieve his stress and the pain of his failure/ started to drink heavily, like it was his saviour/
Janet started wondering what was wrong with him/ when he walked out in the evening he wasn't wearing his ring/
but they had sex frequently and after nine months/ came his son Jacob, the burdon was a tonne/
Jason became violent started punshing his wife/ "how the hell could you do this to me you stupid dyke"/
Jacob watch out now don't walk too far away/ daddy's got a knife that you may come in and play with/

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